Vegetable-cutter.



PATENTED AUG. 28, 1906.

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VEGETABLE-CUTTER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 28, 1906.

Application led October 18, 1904. Serial No. 228,974.

To all whom, it may concern:

Beit known that I, ROBERT W. SGHAFFER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Limeport, in the county of Lehigh and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Vegetable-Outters, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in that type of cutting devices commonly called vegetable-cutters.`

The invention resides particularly in providing a device of the type above mentioned embodying an extreme simplicity relative to the number of parts employed and involving a special arrangement of said parts, conducive to obtaining a practical cutting-machine for the purposes for which itl may be employed.

For a full description of the invention and the merits thereof and also to acquire a knowledge of the details of construction of the means for effecting the result reference is to be had to the following description and accompanying drawings.

While the .invention may be adapted to diHerent forms and conditions by changes in the structure and minor details without departin from the spirit or essential features thereo still the preferred embodiment thereof is shown in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view of a machine embodying the invention. Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional view bringing out more clearly the arrangement of the various parts of the device. Fig. 3 is a sectional view of the cutter-plate, enlarged, so as to bring out more clearly the mounting of the blades or knives thereon. Fig. 4 is a top plan view of the cutter-blade, showing clearly the arrangement ofthe cutting-knives thereon. Fig. 5 is a sectional view similar to Fig. 3, taken on the line X X of Fig. 4. y

Corresponding and like parts are referred to in the followin description and indicated in all the views o the drawings by the same reference characters.

Generally describing the same, the invention comprises a standard 1, adapted to be attached at its lower portion to a suitable support 2, such as a table, stand, or the like. The standard l is forked or branched at its upper end, as shown at 3, and the fork members 3 are provided at their upper extremities with transverse bars in which is mounted a horizontal shaft 4. One end of the horizontal shaft 4 projects beyond the adjacent member 3, and the projecting portion of the shaft carries a fly-wheel 5, having a handle 6 for operation thereof. The shaft 4 also carries at a point between the members 3 a bevel-gear 7, the latter meshing with a similar gear S, mounted upon the upper extremity of a vertical shaft 9, mounted in the standard 1. The shaft 9 is disposed in a vertical opening in the standard 1 and the lower end of the shaft 9 carries a cutter-plate 10 of Vapproximately circular form. The cutter-plate 10 is disposed beneath the board or portion of the support 2 to which the standard 1 is attached, the shaft 9 passing through an opening in the part 2 for the above purpose. At one side of the standard. 1 the support 2 is provided with an opening 1 1 of somewhat semicircular form, and the cutter-plate 10 operates beneath this opening.'

The vegetables or other substances to be cut are passed through the opening 11, so as to be operated upon by the knives or blades 12, attached to the upper side of the cutterplate 10. Two of the knives 12 are preferably employed, and said knives are secured to the cutter-plate by means of set-screws 1.3, the latter being adjustable and admitting of ready attachment or detachment of the blades 12 for cleansing or any other purpose. The knives 10 are arran ed upon opposite sides of the center of the p ate 10, so that one of said knives is constantly operating upon the material, whatever it may be, which is fed through the opening 11 of the support 2. The cutter-plate 10 is provided with slots 14, arranged radially of the center thereof, are located in the cutter-plate with respect to the straight edge of the semicircular opening in the board 2, that their inner ends will always project underneath the board and not be exposed beyond the said straight edge, and the set-screws 13, by which the knives 12 are held in position, are adapted to operate in the slots 14 above mentioned.

A standard 1 has its lower portion widened at diametrically opposite points e 0 which extend along the straight side of the opening 11 and serve to brace the standard laterally and to provide a rest for the material to bear against when being cut. An extension I) is located medially of the extensions a and at a ri ht angle thereto and acts as a brace.

T 1e operation of the device is very clear, since it will be noted that by turning the wheel 5 motion will be transmitted to the IIO cutter-plate 10 by the shafts 4 and 9, and the blade 12 will thus be operated beneath that portion of the support 2 having the opening 11 therein. In addition to the screws 13, by which the knives 12 are held in position, each knife is operated upon by means of an adjusting-screw 16, this screw being threaded into a threaded opening provided in the cutterplate 10 and at a point about between the ends of each of the knives 12. The upper end of each screw 16 bears against the under side of each plate 12 adjacent the edge thereof, at a point between the screws 13, so that the cutting edge may be slightly adjusted toward and from the cutter-plate by the part 16 when screwed in either direction. The slots 14, in which the screws 13 are mounted, are transversely widened at their upper portion, so that the material operated upon by the knives may have clearance through said slots. (See F ig. 5.) lAny suitable clearance means for the knives 12, however, may be provided.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new ish A vegetable-cutter comprising a board having a semicircular opening therein, a standard supported on said board adjacent the straight side of the opening, said standard being forked at its upper end and provided with a vertical opening extending entirely' therethrough and located intermediate or between the forked members, a horizontal shaft mounted in said forked members and provided at one end with a hand-wheel and provided intermediate its ends and between the fork with a bevel-pinion, a shaft mounted in the vertical opening in the standard and provided at its upper end with a bevel-pinion meshing with the -Erst-named pinion and resting upon the upper end of the standard between the forked members whereby the pinion of said vertical shaft supports said shaft in place, a cutter-plate mounted on the lower end of the shaft below the board and provided with radial slots the inner ends of which are so located with respect to the center of the board that they do not project' beyond the straight side of said opening, cuti ting-blades provided with clamping-bolts operating in said radial slots whereby each blade may be adjusted radially on the plate to expose more or less of its cutting edge in the semicircular opening, the inner ends of said slots providing that the inner ends of the blades may be more or less covered by the straight side of the opening as the cutterplate radiates, and a set-screw secured to the edge portion of each blade and working in the plate and designed to adjust the blade vertically.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

ROBERT W. SCHAFFER. 

